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n. The backbone or spine, especially of an animal.

n. A cut of meat containing part of the backbone.

n. A ridge or crest.

n. Nautical The line of intersection between the side and bottom of a flatbottom or V-bottom boat.

v. To cut (a carcass, for example) through the spine, as when butchering.

n. a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea

n. The top of a ridge.

n. The spine of an animal.

n. a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull

v. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

v. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

n. A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine.

n. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.

n. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]

n. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

v. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

v. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

To split open; crack; chink; chap.

To split; crack; burst; lay open.

n. A crack; chink; rift; cleft; crevice; fissure.

n. A ravine or large fissure in a cliff: a term especially common in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, England: as, Black-gang chine.

n. The backbone or spine: now commonly used only of an animal.

n. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

n. Figuratively, a ridge of land.

To cut through the backbone or into chine-pieces.

n. An erroneous form for chime (of a cask).

n. A part of a ship. See chime, 2.

Literally, colored in Chinese fashion: applied to fabrics in which the warp is dyed in different colors, so that a mottled effect is produced, or in which a double thread, formed of two smaller threads of different colors twisted together, is used to produce a similar mottled or speckled appearance.

n. backbone of an animal

n. cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

v. cut through the backbone of an animal

"The two loins together are called the chine or saddle."

chined    chines    chining   

vertebral column    spine    spinal column    rachis    back    backbone    cut of meat    cut    slaughter    butcher   

to mose in the chine    mourning of the chine   

beef   

chined   

chines    capon    sirloin    brisket    haunch    forequarter    backsword    loin    venison    yar